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Today we continued the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope! Students took part in an assembly and made some thoughtful reflections.

Students worked hard writing their SLAs. Results from these exams will help support our math and literacy programs moving forward. We reviewed addition and subtraction facts and solved mystery numbers using base ten knowledge.

Using chocolate as a rock, students moved through the rock cycle using their hands to apply heat, pressure, cool and crumble. This hands on experiment helped develop their understanding of the rock cycle. Students are now working on their presentations.

In writing students started the week learning how to identify and write similes.

They also got a chance to do some creative writing. Using a rock story prompt, they came up with interesting ways to complete the stories.

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Safety Week:
Students practiced many safety drills this week. We had a fire drill, lockdown drill and evacuation drill. They understood the serious nature of practicing for these events and did a great job.

Rocks and Minerals:
Using websites and information books, students researched information about the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle. They used a template to take notes and will continue next week on presentations based on this information.

Literacy:
Students have been keeping record of their daily reading and were able to exchange their books on Thursday at the Learning Commons. In poetry, they have been developing their vocabulary and exploring language. We looked at interesting photographs and brainstormed descriptive words using our senses. Using these words, they formed a descriptive sentence. Next we explored ourselves, and wrote imaginative poems about our thoughts and feelings.

Math:

Students continued their review of numbers to 1000. We practiced skip counting forwards and backwards, starting from any number. We reviewed our odd and even numbers and noticed patterns when counting by 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. Students 'exploded' numbers into tens, fives and ones and began adding them together. We explored number lines and methods for adding numbers according to place value on a number line.

Terry Fox Run:

Students are encouraged to bring in toonies for Terry throughout the following week. We will have an assembly and run on Friday. More details with times will follow.

Links for rock research

LINKS FOR ROCK RESEARCH


Earth Science for Kids: Rocks, Rock Cycle, and Formation

Geology Rocks - The Rock Cycle - Fun Kids - the UK's children's radio station

Igneous Rocks | Mineralogy4Kids

BBC Bitesize - KS3 Chemistry - Rocks - Revision 1

The Rock cycle: Clip - 1:32 min - A BBC video on the rock cycle and different types of rocks.

Weathering and Erosion and the Rock Cycle - PowerKnowledge Earth & Space Science

Geology 101

The Rock Cycle | Earth Science Lesson + Project | K-6

Friday Blog

Welcome to Ms. Devereux's grade 3 class! 

Blogs will be posted every Friday.

We have had a busy start to the year. We have already begun our INQUIRY into rocks and minerals. Students have been collecting, classifying and sorting rocks. We are looking at rocks through the lens of an ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGIST.

In mathematics, students have created some weird and wonderful creatures out of base ten blocks. 

We jumped right into poetry. Using the poem, Rosie Fernandez, written by Wendy Morton, students filled in the blanks of a template to create a funny poem about their name. We then looked at some poets performing their piece and came up with some criteria for students to use. They then practiced sharing their poems and recorded on IRIS.

Students investigated maps. We began with our community, City, Province, Country and finished with a world map! We discussed the compass directions and how to create and read a legend.

Students visited the Learning Commons and are able to choose 2 books to bring home. They have a 'reading log' in their home/school folder and will be exchanging or renewing books every Thursday.

Please don't hesitate to contact me at mldevereux@cbe.ab.ca